Fetish Dungeons (& Dragons)

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To be brutally honest, Fifty Shades of Grey is one of those books that ranked pretty high on my personal list of books to avoided like the plague even before I discovered that it had started life as a bit of dodgy BSDM fan-fiction using characters from the Twilight books. Euugh!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I have a problem with erotica as a literary genre, I just prefer my books to be well-written, which I’m reliably assured isn’t the case with the ‘Fifty Shades’ books, not to mention that the overriding impression I’ve been given is that, despite their fetish elements, the books are otherwise desperately conventional by comparison to the works of Anais Nin and Emmanuelle Arsan*.

*There’s an easy way to distinguish between people who’ve actually read Arsan’s novel ‘Emmanuelle’ and those who’ve merely seen the 1974 film version, which starred the late Sylvia Kristel. Ask them why the final erotic scene in the novel is near enough unfilmable for certificated theatrical release – if they’ve actually read the book they’ll be able to tell you.

Sphere has won rights in a “choose your own adventure” erotica series following a fast-moving auction, with the books written by three South African authors under the pseudonym Helena S Paige…

The first title, A Girl Walks Into a Bar . . ., will be published in the UK in e-book in summer 2013 with physical publication in November. Translation rights have been sold in 10 countries after auction or pre-empt with the German auction entering its fifth round. Morrow won the US auction, and Jonathan Ball will publish in South Africa.

Grewal said: “The A Girl Walks In… series is inspired. To allow a woman to be in charge of her own erotic destiny, to relinquish control to her completely, is uniquely empowering and made these books stand out for all the right reasons. The concept is completely addictive, the storytelling gripping.

“The entire team is behind this and it’s going to be an utter pleasure to publish this series on the Sphere list.”

Even allowing for the fact that role-play is central feature of BDSM, the idea of reworking Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s ‘Fighting Fantasy’ books as a masturbation aid for middle-aged women seems rather bizarre although it does strike me as an idea with a few comedic possibilities…

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4. You enter the hotel bar and see a really hot-looking guy talking to the barman. What do you do?

a) Ignore him and look around to see who else might be available. (go to 47)

b) Walk over and offer to buy him a drink. (go to 71)

c) Walk over, introduce yourself and invite him up to your room. (go to 24)

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Fifty Shades is bad writing and, largely, bad kink; several pros in the community wrote utterly hilarious fisks and take-downs of it. I do like your version of the choose-your-own-wank spin-offs though 🙂

In passing, nice to see you’re still operating. You may remember me from 2008-10 under the pseudonym John Q. Publican.